Tegra 3 tablets at low price



NVIDIA wants to compete with Kindle Fire and has presented Kai, a new platform to host Tegra 3 quad-core tablets and Android 4.0 at low cost.

Another tablet competitor in the market (or several ones) has been spotted in the horizon.

This time is NVIDIA announcing Kai, a new platform for building Android 4.0, quad-core Tegra 3 tablets with a low price, $199.

According to TheVerge:

When Nvidia CEO Jen-Hsun Huang said we might see $199 Tegra 3 tablets this summer, he wasn't speculating idly. Nvidia has revealed that it's working on just such a tablet: Kai. At the company's annual meeting of investors last week, VP Rob Csonger revealed the idea, and explained Kai isn't just a piece of hardware, but a plan to democratize its quad-core Tegra 3 system-on-chip. Nvidia wants to offer Android 4.0 tablets that are more powerful than the Kindle Fire at the same price point, he said:

"Our strategy on Android is simply to enable quad-core tablets running Android Ice Cream Sandwich to be developed and brought out to market at the $199 price point, and the way we do that is a platform we've developed called Kai. So this uses a lot of the secret sauce that's inside Tegra 3 to allow you to develop a tablet at a much lower cost, by using a lot of innovation that we've developed to reduce the power that's used by the display and use lower cost components within the tablet."
As you see, the tablet wars continues.

NEWS SOURCE: NVIDIA reveals Kai $199 quad-core reference design (via) TheVerge

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